Our general season opens tomorrow

[Cottonwood]

#6799

Well tomorrow our general hunting season begins, and I will be back at my blind after some work hours in the morning. Probably since the moon is full again, I will hit it mid day.

I have a mission to complete, and its like a feeling of a guy needing a drink real bad like, and those that have felt this know exactly what I am talking about.

My Zwickey broadheads sharpened and re-checked and sitting in my 4 arrow Bob Lee quiver, sting waxed etc. The bucks should be in the rut, and running the scrape line, and my blind is set up on a nice funneling area where I left it last Sunday.

[David Petersen]

#55082

Jon — as you well know, gear is fun to fuss with in off-season, and given that our species is “techno-hominid” an issue that fascinates us nearly as much as sex. (“Nearly” is the key word here! :P). But you got all that wired so when you go out there, as I’m sure you will, forget the gear and concentrate on the blessings of being alone in a wild quiet place. Gear is mere preparation. The essence and heart of the hunt is purely “being there” in full. But you know all this! Go get some! I’m jealous as hell, my resident season being over for another year (though I’ll be in AZ this winter and tinkering with going to W. VA to meet a friend for deer next month). There is no such thing as a “bad” hunt if we “do it right.” Those last three words are the hard part to figure, and I don’t think I’ll ever live long enough to figure it out in words — though we all know what it is when we’re out there doing and feeling it. Just the opposite of “Whack ’em and stack ’em.” For me, the electrically tense moments when we have game in sight, as with the long hours and days when we don’t, but wait in patient hope nonetheless, are the primary links to the entire history and heart of our species.

Oops … sorry. It’s happy hour again. All I meant to say to you and all our friends just now getting your/their seasons opening is, “Yeah! I’m jealous! Make the most of it!” 😀 Crazy dave

[Cottonwood]

#55351

Thanks David, as you may know we also have had our archery only season and I spent many a wonderful hour in the wood already in my blind. Every time I saw deer, my heart was pounding in my chest with excitement.

Its all been good, and still have not had a bad day yet 😆

[strait-aero]

#55867

I too will be heading out to my blind,Jon…Our archery season has been in since Sep. 25th and I haven’t had any action to speak of. My job has had me six days a week and haven’t been able to make as much time for hunting.:( But the rut is just around the corner and I’ll have to get out early on these mornings even though I work late the night before.
Good luck on the rest of your season and keep us posted. Wayne

[Cottonwood]

#56462

Well I headed out this afternoon, and got in my blind having some rain but not much. I decided to head off into the woods, to stalk around wearing ASAT today and my orange vest that is striped out as well. On the back side of the property, I found a buck that was a nice 8 point, but just a bit to far, as it looked about 35 yards with some branches in the way. I had to try and creep ever so slowly to get a bit closer. I got to with in about 23 yards, and as I was raising my bow up for the shot, he turned and was gone like the ghost of the woods.

I waited a while before heading back towards my blind, as it was starting to rain again. I sat there till almost dark, observing several does wonder thru, but they are hands off as it is bucks only.

Just as the light was really getting low, I noticed movement in the upper pasture of a large bodied grey ghost, one I had not seen before but could tell that it was much larger than the buck I had seen earlier. To far out past the tree line, and I was at least 100 yards up in the timber. I headed out the other way, to cut around where I thought he might come out as I had about 10 minutes of legal shooting light left.

I arrived where I thought he would be, but he had not come thru as I could tell. Well, I figure its all good, because he didn’t see me, but I saw him and tomorrow is another day in my bowhunting world.

[Cottonwood]

#58667

Well it seem’s that those does, just knew it was bucks only now. I started to see some movement to my left of the blind, and wouldn’t you know it… does walking with in striking range.

So I shot them with the video camera.

After a while, I moved out on a stalk, and found 3 bucks across the upper pasture, but at about 200 yards out moving towards the fence from the adjoining property. I have been trying to get a pattern on where and how they were moving. Seeing several bucks together, kinda shows that the rut just has not started yet.

I didn’t get them on video.

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